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          "name": "GEO: Generative Engine Optimization (KDD 2024)",
          "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.09735"
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          "name": "Generative Engine Optimization: A Practical Guide — Semrush",
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            "text": "134-167 words per passage is the sweet spot found in Princeton's GEO study. Short enough to be quotable as one chunk; long enough to provide full context. Very short (<50 words) or very long (>300 words) passages get filtered out."
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          "name": "Should I write differently for AI than for humans?",
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            "text": "Mostly no — best practices overlap (clarity, structure, sources). The differences: lead with the answer (no throat-clearing), use more semantic HTML (h2/h3/schema), and provide quotable passages of 134-167 words."
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